[boost] string classes (Was: GUI)

Adam Badura wrote:

I looked on a few GUI C++ libraries, but none of them satisfied me. Most commonly of this reasons: 1) weak support if at all for exceptions (wxWidgets for example) 2) using own classes instead of standard (most common for string) (wxWidgets and MFC for example)

Well, given that std::basic_string's support for Unicode is lacking, I would consider using custom string class an advantage of those libraries. Hey, you can't even convert std::string to std::wstring, and you can't construct std::wstring from char*. Can you convert std::wstring to any of Unicode's normalization forms? How portable is reading of std::wstring from a file with specific 8-bit encoding? - Volodya